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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tractor Troubles, Hay Hassles and Rake Riding..

Well it was time to start bailing the hay today.. So I had the great fortune to be volunteered to rake the hay into windrows so that the bailer could pick it up. Sounds easy enough... except that I got almost no sleep last night..

...and then I could not figure out how to start Rob's tractor which I had never used before...

...and then the seat on the tractor came apart...

An hour and some later I managed to finally fix the seat...

...and the tractor would not start...

So I jumped it with the truck.. no joy..

Decided to wait for the battery to charge while still connected to the running truck, meanwhile I'd go get some lunch especially since I skipped breakfast..

..but Rob showed up... started the tractor, and I was off again on the rake.. (The rake rides behind the tractor gathering up the hay.. )

The seat came apart again.. a couple of times..

Finally we called it a day about 5 pm... and even now I sit here typing this instead of fixing something to eat, simply because now I am too damned tired...

"How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it." — Edward Abbey

"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. " — Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience)

"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn." — Henry David Thoreau

"A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living." — Henry David Thoreau